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<h1>Add ActionForm Bean Dialog Box</h1>
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<p>Use to register an actionform bean in the <code dir="ltr">struts-config.xml</code> file. 
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<p>An actionform bean acts as a bridge between a JSP page and a Struts action. It captures user input from the JSP pages and delivers it to the action. An actionform bean can also validate the input before passing it on to the action. 
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<p>In the <b>Add ActionForm Bean</b> dialog box, you set the following properties:</p>

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<p>ActionForm Bean Name</p>
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<td align="left" headers="r2c1-t14 r1c2-t14">Specifies the actionform bean's name.</td>
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<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;ActionForm Bean Class</p>
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<td align="left" headers="r3c1-t14 r1c2-t14">Specifies that the actionform bean will take its properties from explicit methods defined in the class.</td>
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<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Dynamic</p>
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<td align="left" headers="r4c1-t14 r1c2-t14">Specifies that the actionform bean will take its properties from an external configuration file, such as from the Struts configuration file.</td>
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<p><b>Note:</b> If you want to change a registered action form bean, you can do so by manually editing the XML tags in the <code dir="ltr">struts-config.xml</code> file.</p>
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<p><i>Developing Applications with NetBeans IDE</i>, 
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